I've just updated two of my Drupal sites, this one and billlawrencereview.com to Drupal 5.7! I am also starting to form a list of 'must have' modules. So far I have nodeasblock, addthis, captcha,xmlsitemap, and nodewords. I'm also now using modified versions of the flexible theme, which is clean CSS with accessibility in mind.

I tried using the various adsense injecting modules for my google ads with little success so far, I'll keep you posted on that one.